"So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Mistake Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Knives Quotes

“There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.”

Source : David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”
“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”
“Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.”

Source : Liza Mundy (2009). “Michelle: A Biography”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.”

Source : "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.”
“Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.”
“suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.”
“I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.”

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